WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news release on Dec. 4, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced five teams as CONCEPT Phase winners in the Collegiate Track of the American-Made Community Energy Innovation Prize. They were selected for their student-led activities that help ensure the benefits of clean energy are felt in local underserved communities. The Community Energy Innovation Pr  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Dec. 5 -- Applied Physics Letters, a journal from the American Institute of Physics, published research articles on the following topics in its Dec. 4, 2023, edition (Vol. 123, Issue 23): EDITORIALS: * Optical nanoprobe imaging and spectroscopy PERSPECTIVES: * Integrated photonics beyond communications PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS: * 10.6% external quantum efficiency germicidal UV LEDs grown on thin highly conductive n-AlGaN * How backreflection contributes to   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: DUBAI, UAE -- Today at COP28, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary of Energy, David Turk, and Mauritania's Minister of Petroleum, Mines, and Energy (MPME), Nani Ould Chrougha, signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on clean energy cooperation. This MOU will facilitate cooperation for deploying clean energy technologies in Mauritania that could simultaneously reduce global greenhouse gas   more

LANCASTER, England, Dec. 5 -- Lancaster University issued the following news: Lancaster University has won a prestigious award at the Green Gown Awards for its Wind Turbine Community Benefit Fund. The award, in the Money for Good category, recognises the beneficial impact the fund has had in supporting community and environmental projects in Lancaster over the last 10 years and demonstrates the benefit that the turbine can provide to the community, as well as the important role it plays in gen  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs issued the following testimony by Isabel Munilla, deputy assistant secretary for market development, climate and multilateral engagement in the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, involving a hearing on Nov. 30, 2023, entitled "Digging Deeper: Ensuring Safety and Security in the Critical Mineral Supply Chain": * * * Chairman Fallon, R  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, issued the following news release: Today, the House passed bipartisan legislation naming the interstate-designated segments of the Texas Ports-to-Plains Corridor as "Interstate Route 27." U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar, Ph.D. (D-TX-28) and U.S. Congressman Jodey Arrington (R-TX-19) introduced companion legislation in the House. The bill will return to the Senate before heading to the President's desk. "Last Congress, I secured language in the   more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, Dec. 1 -- The Kentucky Public Service Commission issued the following order (Case No. 2023-00309): * * * In the Matter of: Electronic Petition Of Kenergy Corp. For A Declaratory Order ORDER On October 30, 2023, the Commission entered an Order denying the motion of the Kentucky Solar Energy Industry Association (KYSEIA) to intervene in this declaratory order case and directed KYSEIA to file a response to Kenergy's petition for declaratory order pursuant to 807 KAR 5:001,   more

LONDON, England, Dec. 5 -- Materials Horizons, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it covers innovative materials, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2023 edition (Vol. 10, Issue 12): * Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator Series: Dr Shanshan Yao, Stony Brook University, USA * The future of metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks: rational synthesis and customized applications * Prediction of future breakt  more

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 5 -- The New York Department of Public Service issued the text of the following letter on Dec. 4, 2023: * * * To: Hon. Michelle L. Phillips, Secretary to the Commission, New York State Public Service Commission Agency Building 3, Albany NY 12223-1350, E-mail: secretary@dps.ny.gov RE: Case 23-E-0618 - Petition of Horseshoe Solar LLC for an Original Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and for an Order Providing for Lightened Regulation. Dear Secretary Phillip  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- The Oceantic Network, formerly the Business Network for Offshore Wind, issued the following news release: Oceantic Network, the leading organization working to advance offshore wind and other ocean renewable industries and their supply chains, announced registration is now open for its annual International Partnering Forum (IPF), happening April 22-25, 2024, in New Orleans. New this year, IPF will feature a full week of offshore wind and ocean renewables   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Oil Change International issued the following statement on Dec. 4, 2023: * * * Today the COP28 Presidency published the summary of the World Climate Action Summit (WCAS), where 154 Heads of States and Government, and 22 International Leaders gathered on 1 and 2 December. Leaders expressed ambition to keep Paris goals within reach, highlighted opportunities to cut emissions in every sector, and emphasized the need for a "phase down of fossil fuels in support of a transiti  more

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 4 (TNSres) -- The Rockefeller Foundation issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2023: Today, at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), The Global Leadership Council (GLC) of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) announced that Barbados, Belize, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Togo committed to the Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Consortium with Indonesia showing strong i  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 4 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Colliding pieces of space debris emit electric signals that could help track small debris littering Earth's orbit, potentially saving satellites and spacecraft A computer-generated image of trackable objects in low Earth orbit. Each dot represents an object, and around 95% of them are debris. The trackable objects are already beginning to form a cloud of debris around Earth, but there are millions of s  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: Communities across the U.S. experiencing the most significant effects of poverty represent a quarter of applications received WASHINGTON--Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE), announced remarkable demand in the initial application period for solar and wind facilities through the Inflation Reduction Act's Low-I  more

BOULDER, Colorado, Dec. 5 -- The University of Colorado Boulder campus issued the following news: By Katy Marquardt Hill Colorado's economy should remain resilient in 2024 despite a host of headwinds including persistent inflation, elevated interest rates, a worker shortage and slowing consumer spending, according to the annual Business Economic Outlook released Monday by the Business Research Division (BRD) at the Leeds School of Business. The forecast, created by BRD and the state of Color  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: Fatima Bagheri, a National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Arlington, was one of 75 students selected to attend an intensive program on supercomputing at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. With support from the Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Program, Bagheri participated in the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale C  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Trade and Development Agency issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2023: This week, U.S. Trade and Development Agency Director Enoh T. Ebong will be in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. While in Dubai, Director Ebong will announce USTDA's latest commitments to climate infrastructure development in emerging economies, including a new global partnership dedica  more

DENVER, Colorado, Dec. 5 -- The Western Energy Alliance issued the following news release on Dec. 4, 2023: Western Energy Alliance today responded to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) release of final rules on methane emissions under the Clean Air Act's New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Section OOOOb and Emission Guidelines (EG) OOOOc. Administrator Michael Regan announced his agency's decisions while attending the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) climate summit in Dubai. The   more